Inking-pad



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I INKING PAD.

No. 294,856. Patented Mar. 11, 1884.

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CHARLES XV. OBUTSINGER, OF ST. LOUIS, MISSOURI.

lNKlNG-PAD.

SPEGIFICATIbN forming part of Letters Patent No. 294,856, dated March 11, 1884.

Application filed June 30, 1883. (No model.)

T0 aZZ whom, it may concern:

' -Be it known that I, CHARLES W. ORUTsIN- GER, a citizen of the United States, residing at St. Louis, and State of Missouri, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Inking-Pads, of which the following is a specification, reference being had therein to the accompanying drawings.

This invention relates to a device for the inking of canceling and other hand stamps.

The claims are referred to for statement of invention.

Figurel is a top view with part of the porous top broken away. Fig.2 is a vertical section at 2 2 of Fig. 1. Fig. 3 is a side view. Fig. 4 is a detail vertical section, showing a modification. g

A is the body, castof elastic material-such as printers roller composition or rubber, or any other flexible material suitable for the purpose. This has prefer. bly a flat base, a, and it has an ink-recess, a, containing a number of concentric or other ribs, walls, or pillars, a whose upper edges are all levelwith the side of the recess. Channels a are made in the walls a, to give passage for the ink to all parts of the recess. The ink is fed to the recess through a mouth, B, consisting of a metal or other close-bottomed tube, with an orifice, b, at the side on a level with the recess a. I prefer to make the mouth with a socket screw-threaded, as shown, so that a cap or cork, C, may be screwed fast with it.

D is the pad proper or cover of the recess, consisting of porous material, such as felt or printers blanketing, or any suitable substance that will permit the passage of ink and will insure an even application of it to the surface of the letters of the stamp. The mar- 40 ginal connection of the pad D is made watertight, so that there will be no escape of ink on the impingement of the stamp on the pad.

The felt cover D is attached to the.body after the latter has been taken from the mold, the top of thebodybeing softened by heat, or spread with cement and the felt pressed upon it, and the walls a are thus stiffened,

The filling-mouth B is not an essential feature, because the ink-recess may be filled once for all when first made, and the apparatus be of supporting elastic walls a, for the shape is immaterial, so that they support the porous cover D in a horizontal position, while allowing it depression by the stamp.

The pad can be filled from a tank placed at any distance required, the filling-mouth B being placed upon the side of the pad and the connection made with suitable tubing and the flow of ink controlled by a faucet.

I claim 1. In a pad, the combination of a body having a base and elastic walls forming recesses, and a porous cover to rest on the body and tops of the walls, the walls forming a firm support, as set forth.

2. A pad cast of elastic material, the said material forming an ink-chamber and supports in said chamber, as set forth.

3. The combination of elastic body, feedmouth to receive a stopper, an ink-chamber with elastic supports being formed in the body, and a porous cover, as set forth.

CHARLES V. CRUTSINGER.

\Vitnesses:

SAML. KNIGHT, E. E. ISRAEL. 

